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> For practical purposes, do you want to count these symptom-free infections in that calculation? well it possibly changes the calculus of how many people coul
by weaksauce 6y ago
> For practical purposes, do you want to count these symptom-free infections in that calculation?
well it possibly changes the calculus of how many people could potentially be a carrier of the virus. if that many people had the disease enough to have some antibodies even with all the extreme measures put into place it is possible this virus is even more contagious than we thought it could be. i don't know and i feel like we won't know because the study of transmission is woefully hard to do. going into this we didn't even know specifically how the flu was transmitted other than hand waving ways(maybe on the surface, maybe aerosols, maybe particles). our research has improved but it's still not great.
- IgorPartola 6y agoAgreed. This tells us that we need to do 100 more studies and not much else. It doesn’t conclude that the people with these antibodies are actually any better off and not getting sick or not transmitting the disease. As you point out they might be worse off. Everyone here is getting very excited about this study because I suspect people think this means that everyone already had COVID so there is less reason to worry. This study says nothing of the sort.